This was a very slow progress from the beginning for various reasons,the company not fully co-operating,my medical condition deteriorating since my accident and making very little progress due to infections bones collapsing in my foot since my accident on the january 17th 1990 and the prospect of further surgery over the coming years.

I was lacking in the experience and very green when it came to dealing with lawyer's from the beginning and i put my faith and trust in them,and what a big mistake that turned out to be as i found out it would cost me very dear to my life emotionally,mentally and financially over the coming years. The affects of my accident were devastating in every way as my whole life had just suddenly been turned upside down as i was psychologicaly,emotionaly affected by the accident and i went into deep depression and trying to come to terms with what happened on the day i had my accident ,and at no time did the lawyer's show any compassion towards me in any way. During this period i wasn't functioning 100% as you can imagine due to the devastating effects of my accident ,and when i had many appointments with the lawyer's over the coming years to discuss my case i found that they payed little attention to what i was trying to explain to them,or any suggestions that i put forward to what i thought would very helpfully that would assist my case,they tend do things there own sweet way.This can be demonstrated by when you receive correspondence,documents etc through the post and the contents of the letters are nothing like what you discussed at a recent meeting with your lawyer,this also can be domonstarated when you have given them specific instructions that you require them to do,they even failed to do that .I also discovered over the years the same applies to when they are instructing various expert witneses that's involved with your case,they spend more time writing irrelevent rubbish in correspondence to you as well as the above mentioned and not sticking to the fact and evidence of your case,or if there is a particular problem or issue that needs to be dealt with that you feel is very important matter to your case.

Back to the case in hand i had changed to several different lawyers right up to october 1994 due to the fact i found then to be totally useless and didn't have much of a clue in how to deal with industrial accident claims they tended to make things up as they go along and not inform you correctly about your claim and not fully apply themselves to your case as much as they should do.The third set of lawyers i instructed to take over conduct of my claim was around october 1994.wasn't much better than the previous ones and just as useless,as you may have guessed correctly they are the defendantsin the professional negligence claim.As it turned out the engineering expert witness who was supposed to be qualified in heavy plant machines ,as you have guessed he was totally useless as i was to discover he didn't pay attention or listened to a word i had to say when there was a site inspection of a identical j.c.b to the one i had my accident on and go through what happened on that day in january 17th 1990, this site site inspection was arranged by the previous instructing lawyers in late 1993.He also obtained the wrong information on the j.c.b i had my accident on it was of a later model 1990 onwards.When i had a conference with my lawyer junior council and several expertt witneses around february-march 1995 and what a happy lot they were,and what a farse that turned out to be they couldn't see the evidence in front of them even if it jumped up at them and bit them in the arse by failing to recognize the strength's of my case and the mone existant defence put forward by the company as previously demonstrated on the link of company defence .The expert witness made several mistake's at the site inspection and this was pointed out by my instructing lawyer and myself and you can guess i was blamed for that as he claimed he did not hear what i said at the site inspection,basically he wasn't paying much attention and just did as he pleased, i then instructed my lawyer at the conference to replace him with some one that was qualified to be a witness on my case and he was in agreement with me that he was a damaging witness and that we didn't want his further involvement .I discovered from my lawyer that he took a pro-stance to my case and he was normally instructed by defense lawyer's in industrial accident claims other words he was batting for the defence on my case.

Just after the conference in february-march 1995 i informed my instructing lawyer that the information that theexpert witness obtained on the j.c.b in question was incorrect and could he obtain the right information related to the j.c.b i had my accident on. He then instructed a further expert witness who turned out just as useless as the previous one and at the same time could he obtain some further information which i knew would be very important and would support my case.As you can guess he failed to carry out my instructions,i was so frustrated with the situation and in total despair this was on top of trying to sort out my medical problems with the doctors,in january 1996 another lawyer at the same firm took over conduct of my claim and he wasn't much better than all the previous he did as he pleased didn't have a clue what he was doing just like the rest of them, in my opinion he was as thick as two short planks.

He then arrange a new conference with the two engineering expert witneses and queens council in march 1996 i found that and in my experience nobody didn't listen to what i had to say as useuall.they had all the evidence in front of them apart from the information i requested the previous lawyer to obtain from the manufactures j.c.b the previous year 1995,They again failed to analize the strength of my case and the weak defence put forward by the company been gary hather plant hire .i found that the queens council was a cold arrogant man, no compassion to a fellow human been, he decided to keep on the expert witness who i no longer wanted his involvement on my case which was in agreement by the previous lawyer for the very reasons i have set out above.In my opinion the conference was a farce as they only wanted to see things there way,as you have guessed correctly again none of them had a clue what they were doing and i felt i was in a no win situation and was in total despair with the situation i found myself in. After the conference in march 1996 i went into hospital for my final amputation of my left leg at mid-thigh.

In june 1996 i was recovering from my latest surgery i contacted my lawyer with further instructions to obtain the information from the manufacture's j.c.b the previous lawyer at the same firm failed to obtain in march 1995 and as to why i hadn't been and i didn't get much of a satisfactory response but he said he will chase it up by contacting the manufactures j.c.b and request the information that i instructed the previous lawyer to obtain. He finally made attempts to obtain the information around july 1996 and it took great effort on my part to get him to obtain it as there was a trial set down on liability only on the december 12th 1996 so that give little time.the first of the information arrived in his office around the end of august to the beginning of september 1996,the second most crucial piece of information evidence that was required in support of my case arrived two days before the trial on liability only that was to take place at the high court in leeds west yorkshire. As this evidence was obtained so late due the failure of the lawyer's not carrying out my instructions in 1995 it was to late to have it entered into court with the case papers and neither was it disclosed to the defence lawyer's.On the morning of december 12th 1996 the engineering expert witness was there,my lawyer,queens council and one secretary,it was so despicable and appalling the way i was treated that morning by queens council and the rest of them who was supposed to be acting in my best interest gave me the following advice.

IF YOU GO INTO COURT TO FIGHT YOUR CASE THERE IS A SERIOUS RISK THAT YOU ARE GOING TO LOOSE YOUR CASE BECAUSE ITS THREE AGAINS'T ONE AND MY CASE WAS A HOPELESS ONE AND I WOULD END UP WITH NOTHING.

I became very distressed that morning due to fact i was threatened,bullied and put under tremendous pressure into accepting the above advice given by queens council the rest of them also joined in at the same time i protested to my lawyer's about the evidence from the manufactures j.c.b as i knew how critical it was to my case and that i could not go on with the trial without it, i felt in total despair but had no choice but to accept his advice on that morning of the december 12th 1996.That advice given on that morning was negligent.